A look at what's happening around Dunedin
• Gigs
Alibi, the Octagon.
Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.
The Bog, corner George and London Sts.
Every Sunday, 7.30pm.
Open mike night with Jae Bedford and Mimz Craig.
Everybody welcome; some gear provided.
Captain Cook Tavern, 354 Great King St.
Friday, 9pm: Scurvey Dogs and the George Kay Experience.
Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers.
Tonight, 8pm: Aktion Unit and Bob Scott and Young Lions, from 9pm.
Tomorrow: Matt Langley and Tania Reid, from 9pm.
Saturday: OK Crazy Fiction Lady and The George Kay Experience, 9pm.
Sunday: Panda "Wow! There's a Lot of Water Around Us" tour, 8pm.
Circadian Rhythm, 72 St Andrew St, DunedinEvery Friday: Philtre jazz trio, 5.30pm onwards.
Isis Lounge, 68 Princes St.
Every Wednesday, 8pm: iJazz.
Every Thursday: Oxo Cubans jam night, from 8pm.
Every Friday, 8pm: Oxo Cubans, party night.
Pequeno, the Savoy.
Thursdays: Mojaz, lounge music from 8pm.
Ra Cafe and Bar, 21 the Octagon.
Tonight, 8pm: Antz and Flanders.
Friday, 7pm: Jimmy Higgs; 11pm: DJ Nick.
Saturday, 11pm: DJ D-fyance.
Robbie Burns Pub, 374 George St.
Thursdays: Calder Prescott Jazz Quartet, 8.30pm.
Rosie's Bar, Victoria Hotel.
Thursdays, 9pm: open mike night.
Gear provided.
Sammy's, 65 Crawford St.
Friday, 8.30pm: The Nice Up featuring Two Tone Tony, Junglefari, Alphariddim, Jahredbeard and Laafta.
Saturday, 9pm: Optimus Gryme/Truth & Billy Fluid with Boof, Woosh, b2b, Syrus and Playjarythm.
Wednesday, 9pm: Xample And Lomax (UK drum and bass) with Titts Magee, B. C Ninja, Mohanz, Satch, FSOD, MC Cypher.
Swell, St Clair Esplanade.
Every Saturday, 3pm-6pm: Live jazz from Trevor Coleman and Nick Cornish.
Tonic, 138 Princes St.
Saturday, 9pm: The Titts - Matt Langley, Graeme Tongue and Jake Langley.
• Family fun
Blueskin Bay Library.
Preschool story time, every Friday, 10.30am.
Excludes school holidays.
Free.
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Pl.
Preschool story time, every Wednesday 10.30am.
Excludes school holidays.
Free.
Mosgiel Library, Hartstonge Ave, Mosgiel.
Friday 3.45pm-4.45pm in the Downes Room: Book Club for Kids.
Every Tuesday, 11am, excludes school holidays: Storytime, suitable for preschool children and their caregivers.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Explorer backpacks for 7- to 12-year-olds, free.
Guided tours daily at 11.30am and 3.30pm.
Meet at the information desk.
Weekends, 10.30am and 2pm, atrium level 1: children's creative activities.
Every Saturday and Sunday during February, Search Centre, level 1, 2.30pm: Bonsai for Beginners.
Every Saturday and Sunday during February, noon and 3.30pm, atrium level 1: Reconstructing Dinosaur Cousins - help rebuild an articulated bird skeleton.
Port Chalmers Library.
Preschool story time, every Wednesday, 11am.
Visitor Information Centre, Octagon.
Daily, 11am: Walk Dunedin, inner-city walking tours.
Meet at the visitor centre.
• Music and performance
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Lunchtime music every Friday and Saturday, noon.
Friday: Gari Prysor; Saturday: George Arthur.
Regent Theatre, Octagon.
Monday, 7pm: David Strassman - Ted E Bare's Farewell Tour.
• Plays
Globe Theatre, 104 London St.
From tonight until March 7, 7.30pm except February 26 and March 7, 2pm: The Dumb Waiter, by Harold Pinter.
Fortune Theatre, Stuart St.
Until March 13: Roger Hall's Conjugal Rites.
Show times: Tuesday 6pm, Wednesday-Saturday 7.30pm, Sunday 4pm. Talks and films Dunedin Film Society, Red Lecture Theatre, Great King St.
Wednesday, 7.30pm: Paul Schrader's remake of the Hollywood horror classic Cat People.
• Talks and Films
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Sundays, 1.30pm and Wednesdays, 12.30pm: Free guided tours of "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
An overview of some treasured works in the collection.
Sunday, 3pm: Cho Duck Hyun Panel Discussion - a discussion of the exhbition "Dark Water: the Antipodes Project". Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Free daily talks, 2pm.
Special exhibition gallery daily at 4.30pm: "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking".
Daily gallery talks for February: Mondays: The Monowai, Tuesdays: Takahe, Wednesdays: Moeraki Boulders, Thursdays: The Dunedin Volcano, Fridays: Samurai, Saturdays: The Yellow-eyed Penguin, Sundays: Maori cloaks.
Saturday and Sunday, 3pm: NHNZ film screening: Nature's Death Traps.
Volcanic eruptions, sinkholes, caves and tar pits have the power to not only destroy but to preserve their victims.
Now paleo-detectives are shedding light on mysteries from prehistoric times.
Wednesday, 6.30pm, Hutton Theatre: Geoff Selley recalls the story of Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctic expedition of 1914-1917 in "Shackleton: The Greatest Survival Story Ever Told".
Otago Settlers Museum, Queens Gardens:February 28, 2-3pm: "Motoring in Otago: an individual perspective" Join us in On the Move: Road Transport in Otago for an entertaining look at our motor transport collection. ExhibitionsAigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru.
Until February 28: " Steal", by Sam Mahon.
Artbay Gallery, Mountaineer building, QueenstownUntil February 28: "My Life in Glass", works by Virginia Leonard.
Art Upstairs, corner Ardmore and Helwick Sts, Wanaka.
• Exhibitions
"The Huia Has Landed", sculpture by Chris Meder.
The Artist's Room, 2 Dowling St.
Norfolk House Realist Invitational featuring Sam Foley, Greg Lewis, Neil Driver, Steve Harris, Geoff Williams, Kenneth Beatson, Stephen Martyn Welch, Sheryl McCammon, Sandro Kopp, Freeman White, John Toomer and others.
Bannockburn Cafe and Store, Bannockburn.
This month - four photographic works of Antarctica by Grahame Sydney.
Bellamys Gallery Macandrew Bay.
Open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm.
Representing Pauline Bellamy and Manu Berry.
Blue Oyster Gallery, basement, Moray Chambers, 30 Moray Pl.
Until March 20: "RE-FIBRA: Contemporary Textile Art - A Dialogue Between New Zealand and Sweden", featuring work by Victoria Andersson, Andrea Chandler, Anna Eckert, Jacquelyn Greenbank, Ngahina Hohaia, Malena Karlsson, Genevieve Packer and Jeanette Scharing.
Brett McDowell Gallery, 5 Dowling St.
Until March 4: "Five New Works", by Martin Thompson.
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, 21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra.
Until March 15: "Flight & Light", An exhibition by NZ wildlife painter Rebecca Gilmore and NZ landscape photographer Greg Slui.
Open 9am-6pm. Doc Visitors Centre, Aoraki/Mt Cook.
Until February 28: "Documenting the nesting season of a pair of wild NZ falcon", photography by Donna Falconer.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Octagon.
Ongoing: "Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery".
Until February 28: Cho Duck Hyun, "Dark Water: the Antipodes Project".
An installation produced by South Korean artist Cho Duck Hyun in Auckland last year, this work continues the artist's interest in the effect of migration on recent social and cultural history.
Until May 18: Cao Fei: "Utopia".
Chinese artist Cao Fei has a reputation for multi-media installations that respond to the manic pace and dizzying scale of urbanisation in her culture.
Until April 18: Madeleine Child: "Sweet As".
A playful installation featuring Child's signature range of oversized and deliciously rococo popcorn.
Ongoing: "Poseur".
Portraits from the gallery's collection.
Until March: Ronnie van Hout "Rear Window".
Until May: Taryn Simon: "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar".
Forrester Gallery, Thames St, Oamaru.
Until March 28: "White Gold - the Business of Milk", by Sally Burton.
Inspired by the immediate surrounds of Sally Burton's house and studio on the Waimea Plains, south of Nelson.
Until March 21: "The Fishermen's Daughters", by Irene Schroder and Ramonda Te Maiharoa.
Ramonda's photomontage works feature the streets and people of the area, while Irene's crater-glaze terracotta ceramics have been strongly influenced by the landscape and seascape, particularly in and around Moeraki.
Gallery at Glenfalloch, Glenfalloch Gardens.
Contemporary works by six Peninsula artists.
The Gateway Gallery, 27 Ross Pl, Lawrence.
"Sweet As" - prints by Jason Kelly, Rita Angus, Hamish Allan, Ron Esplin, Barry Ross Smith, Diana Adams.
Chairs by James Stewart, ceramics by Marjorie Hay, Ro McQueen, Judy Ringland Stewart and others.
Hocken Gallery, cnr Anzac Ave and Parry St.
Open Monday-Friday 9.30am-5pm, Saturday 9am-noon.
Hullabaloo Art Space, Melmore Tce, Old Cromwell historic precinct.
Until February 27: Photography by Eric Schusser.
Inge Doesburg Studio and Gallery, 6 Castle St.
Until March 4: Helen Badcock, "New Work".
Open Wed-Sat noon-2 pm or contact Inge, ph (021) 217-8444
Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
Until February 28: "Showing Favourites".
Historical and contemporary art from local private collections.
Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 18 Dowling St.
From Saturday until March 24: Karl Maughan: "The Lost Path".
Milford Galleries, Queenstown Until March 17: John Parker, "Black + White + Red".
Nadene Milne Gallery, 16 Buckingham St, Arrowtown.
Until March 10: "Pacific Shrine", works by Max Gimblett.
Neville Studios, 35 Crawford St.
Until March 5: "Over The Hill".
Works by Elaine Knight.
North Otago Museum, 60 Thames St, Oamaru.
Until May: "Sweat and Starch": textiles from the museum's collections. Otago Art Society, in the OAS gallery at Dunedin Railway Station, 1st floor, open daily.
Until February 28: Summer Exhibition.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King St.
Until May 23: "Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking", Nature Galleries, level 3, free.
Until April 19: "Charles Brasch: A great good man", People of the World Gallery, level 2.
Until May: "Dinosaur Eggs and Babies", Special Exhibitions Gallery, level 1.
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.
Ongoing: "Across the Ocean Waves", interactive exhibition about Otago immigration in the age of sail.
Until June: "Willkommen to Dunedin: A History of German-speaking People in Otago".
Until February 28: "Square and Compasses: Freemasonry in New Zealand" shares the history and traditions of freemasonry.
Until February 28: "Built to Last: Engineering in Otago" examines more than 150 years of engineering achievement in Otago - the development of telecommunications and transportation networks, water and wastewater systems, mining industries, electricity supplies, buildings, bridges and more.
Owaka Museum, 10 Campbell St, Owaka.
"Catlins Bound": watercolours by Fergus Sutherland.
Rocda Gallery, 73 Princes St.
Until March 6: Fiona Stirling, "Sea Blue & Night Sky".
South Seas Gallery, 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
Until February 27: "New Work", recent paintings by Ollie Crooks.
Stuart Street Potters Co-operative, 14 Lower Stuart St.
Until February 28: Jo Howard and Peter Gregory.
Taieri Gallery, 123 Gordon Rd, Mosgiel.
Until March 1: Ceramics and art by Dunedin artist Stewart Larson.
Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Pl, Dunedin.
Until February 27: Ruth Myers, "And of no obvious use".
